COVID-19: 599,128 Ghanaians vaccinated with 752 deaths recorded

The country began its COVID-19 vaccination in February with 600,000 AstraZeneca doses received from the global COVAX vaccine sharing facility aimed at providing shots to developing nations to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ghana has recorded a total of 752 COVID-19 related deaths as 11 patients are in critical and 21 in severe condition, the Ghana Health Service has reported.

The health authority indicated that the number of active cases stands at 1,447 and confirmed cases stand at 91,009 with 88,810 recoveries.

Ghana on Wednesday, February 24, 2021, took delivery of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India (Covishield) and the COVID-19 vaccination started in Ghana on March 2, 2021.

It made Ghana the first country to receive the vaccine from the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (COVAX), which has 92 beneficiary countries signed on to it, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.

The AstraZeneca boss said: "This delivery is the first of many shipments of the AstraZeneca vaccine expected over the coming weeks and months via COVAX that will take us closer to ensuring broad and equitable access."